For the second Dodgers game in a row, Shohei Ohtani was intentionally walked to load the bases, and Mookie Betts followed by working his own walk to score a key run. In Monday’s Game 1 of the NLCS, the walk to Betts by Abner Uribe gave the Dodgers the insurance run they needed to eke out a 2-1 win over the Brewers.

“That run in the top of the ninth was huge, obviously 20-20 hindsight,” said Freddie Freeman, who homered earlier in the game for the Dodgers’ other run. “Getting on the road in an environment and taking the first one, it’s huge. You can’t understate that at all.”

The previous bases-loaded walk by Betts came in the seventh inning of Game 4 of the NLDS last Thursday at Dodger Stadium, off Phillies closer Jhoan Duran directly after an intentional walk to Ohtani. That tied the ga

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